[ovirt-devel] how (inefficient) does vdsm import sparse disks in local storage(file based) data domain?

[Sven Kieske]

On 23/10/14 15:51, Nir Soffer wrote:
> We have this patch for next version:
> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/33355

Awesome!

>>
>> So here's my proposal (if I do not have any mistakes in the above):
>>
>> at least make a:
>> tar -cpSvf disk.tar /path/to/disk
>> and than "dd" this over the network, because tar _can_ handle sparse
>> files.
>>
>> Of course any other more efficient mechanism would be okay too.
>>
>> If my observation is right, and the project think it's worth
>> to implement such a thing I would create an RFE for this
> 
> Please do


Here it is:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156115


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